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I'll be keeping track of everyone's progress with the newly christened Spreadsheet of Fantastic (RIP, Spreadsheet of Doom) and reporting the results in the Current Members list in the weekly OP. When it's your turn to make a pick, I will PM you. If you do not respond to me by Midnight EST the following Sunday, you will lose your pick and I will start a poll to determine that week's selection.

Any week in which we do not have a Review Grouper with 5 qualifying picks, we will determine the week's comic via poll.

Post your review in the forum thread or in the comments section here on the front page.

Review as often or as little as you like. Once you've posted 5 reviews, you will be awarded 1 pick. You can post 5 reviews, right? That's a totally achievable goal and with day and date digital releases becoming the standard, it shouldn't matter if your shop ordered enough copies of this weeks comic or not.

When multiple Review Groupers have posted 5 (or more) qualifying reviews, they will be awarded their pick in the order that they qualified. What constitutes a qualifying review? Any review posted (with a score on a scale from 0-10, that's right 0!) within 1 calendar month of the thread going live. Reviews are to be at least 5 sentences long. It shows that a) you have at least read this week's pick and b) you have some unique insight into the comic.

Reviews posted while waiting in line for your pick will be applied to your next pick.

I'll be keeping track of everyone's progress with the newly christened Spreadsheet of Fantastic (RIP, Spreadsheet of Doom) and reporting the results in the Current Members list in the weekly OP. When it's your turn to make a pick, I will PM you. If you do not respond to me by Midnight EST the following Sunday, you will lose your pick and I will start a poll to determine that week's selection.

Any week in which we do not have a Review Grouper with 5 qualifying picks, we will determine the week's comic via poll.

Rain Partier

Daredevil #36 was an excellent read! It feels like a natural ending point instead of a blatent relaunch to sell a new #1 issue and charge a buck more (even though I'm sure it's both). Waid deals with last issue's cliffhanger ending (we've seen a lot of those in this run, haven't we?) in a way that makes perfect sense and deals with the earlier ramifications of Murdock's secret. The art is spot on. And I love hearing that "Daredevil's no chicken."

Rain Partier

Daredevil #36 was an excellent read! It feels like a natural ending point instead of a blatent relaunch to sell a new #1 issue and charge a buck more (even though I'm sure it's both). Waid deals with last issue's cliffhanger ending (we've seen a lot of those in this run, haven't we?) in a way that makes perfect sense and deals with the earlier ramifications of Murdock's secret. The art is spot on. And I love hearing that "Daredevil's no chicken."

Wrasslin' Fan

The latest volume of Daredevil comes to an end. It's a satisfying ending that wraps up all of the threads that Waid had going in the current storyline. It successfully serves as the ending to this volume and as a launching pad for the next. It's tricky to do both, but Waid meets this challenge in a very enjoyable way. It made me want to buy into where things are going next.

Wrasslin' Fan

The latest volume of Daredevil comes to an end. It's a satisfying ending that wraps up all of the threads that Waid had going in the current storyline. It successfully serves as the ending to this volume and as a launching pad for the next. It's tricky to do both, but Waid meets this challenge in a very enjoyable way. It made me want to buy into where things are going next.

Son of Stein

Of course its not as it will get a renumbering every 3 years or so, but as a last issue of this story goes, it could have been a whole lot better.

I haven't been shy that in stating that, while Waid's DD is a very good book, it isn't the 'great' book it could be. I have not liked the recent plot of the Sons of the Serpent conspiracy/infiltration into society because it has been portrayed to be far larger than even comic book sense could take. And in this issue it all gets neatly wrapped in a bow in just a few panels with the DA promising that 'he'll get them'. Get who? Sure you nabbed a judge, but previous issues had practically the entire courthouse, firemen, policemen, etc. Hell, even the cable TV guys are involved with the Serpents. Face it, Waid made this far bigger than it ever needed to be and now Matt just cuts and runs to San Fran.

Which brings us to what happens next. It looks like Matt will take Foggy with him and probably Kirsten to SF. So the core cast remains intact, Matt still is a lawyer, his identity is now known (as if it wasn't before), the Serpent infestation stays in NYC and the only real change is that he moves house. Yeah, that merits a renumbering.

Story aside, the writing is still good (despite some horrendous courtroom puns) and the art is indeed fine (although a panel of DD taking out a Serpent probably didn't demand a full splash page).

Of course its not as it will get a renumbering every 3 years or so, but as a last issue of this story goes, it could have been a whole lot better.

I haven't been shy that in stating that, while Waid's DD is a very good book, it isn't the 'great' book it could be. I have not liked the recent plot of the Sons of the Serpent conspiracy/infiltration into society because it has been portrayed to be far larger than even comic book sense could take. And in this issue it all gets neatly wrapped in a bow in just a few panels with the DA promising that 'he'll get them'. Get who? Sure you nabbed a judge, but previous issues had practically the entire courthouse, firemen, policemen, etc. Hell, even the cable TV guys are involved with the Serpents. Face it, Waid made this far bigger than it ever needed to be and now Matt just cuts and runs to San Fran.

Which brings us to what happens next. It looks like Matt will take Foggy with him and probably Kirsten to SF. So the core cast remains intact, Matt still is a lawyer, his identity is now known (as if it wasn't before), the Serpent infestation stays in NYC and the only real change is that he moves house. Yeah, that merits a renumbering.

Story aside, the writing is still good (despite some horrendous courtroom puns) and the art is indeed fine (although a panel of DD taking out a Serpent probably didn't demand a full splash page).

Swedish Pinata of Death

Of course its not as it will get a renumbering every 3 years or so, but as a last issue of this story goes, it could have been a whole lot better.

I haven't been shy that in stating that, while Waid's DD is a very good book, it isn't the 'great' book it could be. I have not liked the recent plot of the Sons of the Serpent conspiracy/infiltration into society because it has been portrayed to be far larger than even comic book sense could take. And in this issue it all gets neatly wrapped in a bow in just a few panels with the DA promising that 'he'll get them'. Get who? Sure you nabbed a judge, but previous issues had practically the entire courthouse, firemen, policemen, etc. Hell, even the cable TV guys are involved with the Serpents. Face it, Waid made this far bigger than it ever needed to be and now Matt just cuts and runs to San Fran.

Which brings us to what happens next. It looks like Matt will take Foggy with him and probably Kirsten to SF. So the core cast remains intact, Matt still is a lawyer, his identity is now known (as if it wasn't before), the Serpent infestation stays in NYC and the only real change is that he moves house. Yeah, that merits a renumbering.

Story aside, the writing is still good (despite some horrendous courtroom puns) and the art is indeed fine (although a panel of DD taking out a Serpent probably didn't demand a full splash page).

Overall - 6

This review deserves 10/10.

I don't really have much to add, it sums up pretty much exactly how I felt about the issue and the run in general. At the beginning, I really enjoyed this volume of Daredevil. The art is superb, some of the finest visual storytelling anywhere but Waid is Waid, a fan of a bygone era where stories have no real development and by the volume's end, nothing significant has changed.

Much like his Irredemable series, Waid takes six issues worth of plot and pads it with "character development" to last three years. Except the characters don't really develop, they just go through the motions. I gave one of these issues a 10/10 because of how touching and honest Foggy's illness was handled but if I had known then that everything would work out fine in the end, I would have felt as cheated then as I do now.

And it's not just Foggy, everything goes Daredevil's way in the end. How the fuck is that inspirational? What's heroic about incompetent villains and deus ex machina safety nets? I was sick of this shit 30 years ago and yet it still persists.

If creators like Waid want more comics to be aimed at children, they need to understand that kids aren't stupid. They hate padded stories, with stupid villains that make Scott Evil cringe where everything just works out fine for the hero in the end. That isn't art; it's kitsch and it's fucking garbage.

Oh and BTW, the price point on this and every other comic is bullshit and only drives kids away. Why spend $50 on a half dozen or so comic books for maybe 2 hours entertainment, tops, when they can spend that money on a video game and be entertained for 40-100 hours? GTFO comic book industry; you deserve your inevitable extinction.

Of course its not as it will get a renumbering every 3 years or so, but as a last issue of this story goes, it could have been a whole lot better.

I haven't been shy that in stating that, while Waid's DD is a very good book, it isn't the 'great' book it could be. I have not liked the recent plot of the Sons of the Serpent conspiracy/infiltration into society because it has been portrayed to be far larger than even comic book sense could take. And in this issue it all gets neatly wrapped in a bow in just a few panels with the DA promising that 'he'll get them'. Get who? Sure you nabbed a judge, but previous issues had practically the entire courthouse, firemen, policemen, etc. Hell, even the cable TV guys are involved with the Serpents. Face it, Waid made this far bigger than it ever needed to be and now Matt just cuts and runs to San Fran.

Which brings us to what happens next. It looks like Matt will take Foggy with him and probably Kirsten to SF. So the core cast remains intact, Matt still is a lawyer, his identity is now known (as if it wasn't before), the Serpent infestation stays in NYC and the only real change is that he moves house. Yeah, that merits a renumbering.

Story aside, the writing is still good (despite some horrendous courtroom puns) and the art is indeed fine (although a panel of DD taking out a Serpent probably didn't demand a full splash page).

Overall - 6

This review deserves 10/10.

I don't really have much to add, it sums up pretty much exactly how I felt about the issue and the run in general. At the beginning, I really enjoyed this volume of Daredevil. The art is superb, some of the finest visual storytelling anywhere but Waid is Waid, a fan of a bygone era where stories have no real development and by the volume's end, nothing significant has changed.

Much like his Irredemable series, Waid takes six issues worth of plot and pads it with "character development" to last three years. Except the characters don't really develop, they just go through the motions. I gave one of these issues a 10/10 because of how touching and honest Foggy's illness was handled but if I had known then that everything would work out fine in the end, I would have felt as cheated then as I do now.

And it's not just Foggy, everything goes Daredevil's way in the end. How the fuck is that inspirational? What's heroic about incompetent villains and deus ex machina safety nets? I was sick of this shit 30 years ago and yet it still persists.

If creators like Waid want more comics to be aimed at children, they need to understand that kids aren't stupid. They hate padded stories, with stupid villains that make Scott Evil cringe where everything just works out fine for the hero in the end. That isn't art; it's kitsch and it's fucking garbage.

Oh and BTW, the price point on this and every other comic is bullshit and only drives kids away. Why spend $50 on a half dozen or so comic books for maybe 2 hours entertainment, tops, when they can spend that money on a video game and be entertained for 40-100 hours? GTFO comic book industry; you deserve your inevitable extinction.